Like a Train, We Are Always On The Move, Enjoy The Ride!!!

Have you ever watched crowded trains from a railway platform? The trains come and go, leaving a thousand of people on the platform and a thousand more inside.… This process goes on continuously, day in and day out.

This is so much like life. Like a train, we are on the move, running ahead, doing our duties. In the process, during the journey, life teaches us a lot; we gain different experiences in different phases. Some of those experiences enrich us and we carry them with us like the train carries its passengers to their destinations.

Other experiences are bitter ones and we try to leave those behind, just as the train unloads cargo at different junctions, to continue on its journey each time the whistle is blown.

The train or engine driver is a leader, controlling the vehicle just as our brain controls and directs our emotions and life. The guard of a train checks the tracks and gives the clearing green signal, just as our heart tries to find out if all is well or not before we resume our journey and gives us the green signal. When it senses something unusual, it sends out warning signals.

Once you have boarded the train of life, there is no option but to sit back and enjoy the ride, with all its ups and downs, stations and signals. Go with the flow. You just need to choose the right track to reach your chosen destination!

First, become a good human being👲👦

Be a good human first. This will help us overcome problems that the world is facing today. Cultivate strength to first be a good human yourself so that you can in turn create more good humans. No technique, guru, leader, social worker, nor healer can solve problems or work for common welfare unless change happens first in the individual.

Are diseases and other problems any less today than they were before? There is no shortage of healers, yogacharyas and gurus. Poverty continues unabated, incidents of disrespect towards women are increasing. There is no holistic education. This is because we have not created good humans.

To create a good human, first you have to become a good human. Only then can transformation happen. With good humans, earth receives good vibrations, and calamities are minimised. They happen only due to mind vibration, because we are empowering images such as – ‘I am the greatest social worker, i will get a big award, i will get a Nobel Prize. I am a great writer, i will get the Booker award’. These are all ego-driven, not conducive to creating a good human. I don’t deny that you have to make a living, but don’t forget that salt in vegetable is good; vegetable in salt is not good.

How do you define a good human? A good human is truthful, simple, does not snatch others’ things, nor does he step on other people to get ahead. He is content with what he has, and if he needs more, he works for it, and does not take shortcuts. He is not hungry for popularity. He is natural.

Life on earth is completing its cycle. A quantum leap into the next evolutionary orbit, like cell division, can happen any moment. Transferring from one orbit to another is not prefixed. Satellites in the previous orbit will disintegrate if they are not ready for the quantum leap. Planets travel in their own orbits at a specific distance without colliding with each other. With satellites departing, there is no change in the speed of that planet. Like orbit change could happen in the universe, so too with constantly evolving humans. When the time is ripe to step into another dimension, the consciousness of an evolved human enters into it by being in the same body or leaving that body (death).

Those related to this evolved consciousness have the same niyat, situation, as that of the satellites of a planet. Pure consciousness is welcomed into the new orbit by satellites of that frequency. The ones on the vertical path should not be vain or arrogant. Shastras say that when their collective good karmas are accounted for, they could fall from grace. When one is with a truly evolved human, akin to a manifest planet, it is your destiny to be in total surrender or else imbibe the core attributes of that evolved human so that when time elapses and you are not tuned to take the quantum leap with such a master into the new orbit, one can fill the vacuum left by such an evolved person and take the mission forward.

This is the dharma of a tattva jnani, knower of the essence, a spiritual mentor carrying consciousness of the age, as stated in shastras: ‘Yatha pindey, tatha Brahmandey’ – ‘as is human mechanism, so is the universe’.

Happiness in Life😍😍

Daily living has three aspects: 

1) Each individual has a particular situation; this means deciding what you want in a given situation and doing whatever you think you should do to get it.

2)What happens after is not in your control.

3) Thereafter, society accepts what has actually happened as your own action, good or bad, and you are rewarded or punished.

Reward has come to mean pleasure and punishment has come to be understood as pain, all in the moment. We have no choice but to accept if we want to continue living in that society.

This constitutes your happiness or unhappiness from moment to moment over which you have no control, nor can you know what will bring pleasure or pain, or know the total amount of pleasure and pain assigned to you during your lifetime.

Happiness cannot depend on what you experience moment to moment. Therefore, happiness must depend upon your attitude to life.

You cannot be happy unless your relationship with the other is harmonious. Being happy is to be at peace with yourself, that is, never to be uncomfortable with yourself.

You are not totally comfortable with yourself in your relationship with the other because the other will not always do what you want him to do, and, you cannot expect him to do that either!

Everything is a happening for which neither you nor the other can be blamed. So even if a happening hurts, you cannot hate anyone, neither yourself nor the other. With the total acceptance of this concept, in an instant, your load of hatred for yourself and for the other disappears.

Why Krishna is Called God of Love

Krishna’s love encompasses the entire gamut of this beautiful feeling – love for his foster mother Yashoda, for his brother Balaram, love for gopis and for Radha. Most commonly, love refers to an emotion, a strong attraction and personal attachment. Love in its many forms acts as major facilitator of interpersonal relationship; owing to its central psychological importance. Love is a common theme in the creative arts.

Krishna revealed pure forms of the many types of love to us – hence he is called the God of Love. Krishna is in love with life, poetry, music of life and dance. He is adored in three different ways: vatsalya bhava, madhura bhava and sakhya bhava. Radha adored him in madhura bhava, Yashoda and Nanda worshipped him in vatsalya bhava and the cowherds with sincere, loving hearts adored him in sakhya bhava, as a friend.

Love has tremendous power; in fact there is no greater power than love, it has the ability to heal the world. Love can heal old wounds and cleanse you of any negativity. Three things will last forever; these are, faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love. While violence and hatred are indulged in by weak people, true love remains pure, fair, upright and without lust, greed and selfish motive.

Power of love can be understood by the person who is full of love. It’s easy to feel the love rather than describe it in words. In the Bhagwad Gita, in the chapter on Bhakti Yoga, help is proffered and spirits are healed through love – through the soul’s love for that which is eternal and through the love of the eternal for each soul.

The path of devotion and love, Bhakti Yoga, is commonly associated with those who express themselves through music, poetry, dance and other fine arts and it is synonymous with a life of service, prayer and meditation, a life devoted to God.

The path of Bhakti Yoga unfolds spontaneously. For some, its appeal stems from an inherent attraction to God. For others, gratitude towards yoga matures into love and respect for a teacher, for a system of practice or for the natural universe.

Krishna says, ‘I am the same to all beings and my love is ever the same but those who worship me with devotion, they are in me and I am in them.’ All spiritual persons and saints always give the message of love. Power of love can be understood only by loving someone, only then we can realise how powerful this emotion of love can be.

According to Osho, the more loving you are, the less is the possibility of any relationship. The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations and an efforts from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power. Question arises then, as to what is true love. The best example of true love is parent-child love. Love is internal, not external and it refers to a variety of that of a parent for her child that is unconditional.

Love enhances your inner strength. Love makes the person kindhearted, humble and helpful to others. Love is beautiful when it raises us to a higher level.

“Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare”

Let Money Bless You

We are aware of the blessings of elders, teachers, gurus and spiritual ones, but never heard about money showering blessings on anyone. Money is perceived as a boon or bane and sometimes it can be both — but can it be ablessing also? Money is very important in our life but it’s not everything. As a means, it is a good friend, but as the only goal, it becomes an enemy.

Money is a good servant but bad master: it is useful to satisfy your need but when it feeds your greed, it will disturb your life. That is why Mohandas Gandhi said that nature has everything to fulfil one’s need but not to gratify greed. So, it is better not to get attached to money.

When money is paid to a teacheror guru, it is called ‘dakshina’, not expense. This dakshina comes back to us with blessings in the form of happiness, contentment and prosperity.

The investment is the intention with which you part with money. Respect money and invest it with sacred intention, not only as expenditure, every time for consumption. When you part with money for any goods or services, hand it over to others with a missionary feeling, saying, go, help others and come back after having served the needy. Goods or services once consumed are gone forever.

Spiritual investment comes back manifold with bonuses in the form of fullness of life. Live life comfortably and gracefully. In spirituality, giving does not mean losing. So, give generously and get enriched.

Life Filled With Love

A loving word, a compassionate look, a simple good deed — all these can bring light to the lives of the less fortunate as well as to your own. It is not what you gain, but what you are able to give that determines the value of your life. If you have been able to give happiness to a soul — even for a minute — it makes your life blessed. Love gives everything; there is no thought of receiving.

Love has no complaints; it accepts all. Love removes all fears; it transforms all ugliness into beauty. Because love is the real refuge, it is the beauty of life.

Love is the spring of life; it makes it ever new and fresh. Love is the expression of the Self. It is the thread on which all beings are strung. When love awakens in a person, the divinity in him or her also awakens for love is God; it is the manifestation of the divine.

How does love create oneness?

In love, there are never two. We feel a river to have two banks only because of the water in between. If the water of the ego dries up, only oneness remains.

When love awakens, the ego disappears. Then, human beings realise their oneness with each other. One realises his or her oneness with the whole of creation. Divine love is knowledge, liberation and bliss.

When we become filled with that divine love, we are able to see God in everything, and that itself is the ultimate fulfilment.

Meaning of Shivratri

Shivratri is an auspicious night when we receive something very special through the grace of Shiva, by chanting Aum Namah Shivaya. Actually, it does not matter whose name we chant, the main point is that we connect with God throughout the night.

When the moth has seen the light, does it go back into darkness? No, it would rather die at the flame. When we have cleansed the outside, our true Self reveals itself, and when this happens, the dissolution of your identity and of your mind occurs.

Why do we adorn Shiva with vibhuti? Just to remind us that everything is ash. This body is ash and it will become that ash. Shiva is a great Yogi, who is seated within each one. That’s why when we say Shivoham, we identify ourself with Shiva.

We say Aham Brahmasmi; I am Divine. I am Divine because this is the essence of human nature. When the outside identity is dissolved, the true identity, the Divine identity of who we are, is revealed. Shiva is sitting in meditation to represent that the mind has to calm itself.

As long as the mind is wandering around, there will be misery. But when you have learnt to calm yourself, then God will reveal himself. When we do abhishekam, we offer the panchamrit that represents the five senses that we surrender to Shiva so he can purify them. We offer flowers, we offer bilva leaves that symbolise the unity of the body, mind and spirit in one. We are offering it outside but in reality, we are asking Him to make us realise this unity of the body, mind and spirit.

How does one achieve the impossible?

Let’s begin by examining the concept of the impossible before trying to answer such a tantalising question. Some things are clearly impossible in a physical sense. A nonagenarian who hopes to qualify for the Olympics for high jump is clearly hoping for the impossible unless of course one has a seniors’ Olympic event in mind.

But when Napoleon said that the word ‘impossible’ is found in the dictionary of fools, then clearly, he did not have such impossibilities in mind. What he perhaps had in mind was that certain goals or accomplishments, which we normally consider out of reach, may be capable of being achieved if only one was daring enough to entertain them and determined enough to go after them. One might have considered it impossible of France to achieve the kind of military victories that Napoleon achieved for his country.

This idea of the impossible becomes even more relevant when we come to the individual, who might consider certain accomplishments impossible without realising that with persistent effort and determination they could be achieved. Perhaps, in such a context, the word ‘impossible’ is best understood as really denoting the improbable, which our imagination considers impossible. With these introductory remarks let us now consider what some sages have to say about achieving the impossible.

Swami Vivekananda met Sage Pavahari Baba of Ghazipur in the course of his wanderings across India. Vivekananda was so impressed by the Baba that he wanted to be initiated by him but whenever he resolved to do so, he was dissuaded by the appearance of an apparition of Sri Ramakrishna. Pavahari Baba later immolated himself upon being unable to bear the sufferings of his country in Kali Yuga.

Vivekananda, perhaps overwhelmed by the enormity of India’s problems asked Pavahari, “How does one achieve the impossible”?

Pavahari Baba replied: “By treating the means as the end and the end as the means.” One hesitates to offer an interpretation of such an oracular pronouncement and the reader may have his own understanding of it. But what was perhaps meant was that when we think of achieving something, we tend to focus on the end product more, rather than how that end product might be actually achieved in terms of the concrete steps required, to accomplish it.

So what the sage was perhaps suggesting was that we should focus our attention entirely on the means with the same passion with which we covet the goal itself. That would be one way of treating the means as the end. And then once such a concrete step is realised, similarly, the success we have achieved should be considered only a step in relation to what remains to be achieved to accomplish the goal. This would be one way of treating the end as the means.

St Francis of Assisi’s remarks do seem to shed light on the exciting question under discussion. He says that one should begin by doing the necessary; then one should do the possible, and then he adds that if one does so one would find oneself accomplishing the impossible. His remarks clearly bear a family resemblance to what was uttered by Pavahari Baba in response to the question put to him by Swami Vivekananda.

Balancing Life Budget

A life budget includes committing time to self, family, society and God. The lives of those who do this get enriched not just financially, but also socially and spiritually.

Many corporate executives invest all their time and effort in pursuing their careers and climbing the professional ladder. Is it at all worthwhile? Most discover that their victory is empty and that they won it at an irreparable loss to their health, family and psyche, incurring obesity, heart disease and fatigue on the physiological front; separated spouse, estranged children and uncared-for parents on the familial front; frustration, depression and stress on the physio-psychological front.

The World Health Organization predicts that stress will be the number one killer in the world by 2020. And stress is usually nothing more than an individual’s failure to balance his lifestyle. Living life in a healthy manner and living it fully means we have to maintain regular food habits and follow a sensible diet, regular exercise and rest, going out with family, working for charity and spending some time in reflection, meditation and prayer.

There is only one way to survive overwork or burnout: be brave and bail out or you will be a loser. Asage asked a prosperous king, “If you were about to die of thirst and starvation and someone offered you a glass of water and a loaf of bread in exchange for your wealth and kingdom, would you give them to him?” “Of course I would,” replied the king. “Then why,” asked the sage, “have you wasted your entire life amassing wealth when they are worth no more to you than a glass of water and a loaf of bread?”

A Tree is Your Life

Trees are our closest relatives. What they exhale, we inhale, what we exhale, they inhale. Trees keep our lives going, just like the outer part of our lungs. You cannot ignore your body if you want to live, and in no way is the planet different from this. What you call ‘my body’ is just apiece of this planet. And the very essence of the spiritual process is about just this.

When we say ‘spirituality’, we are not talking about looking up or looking down. It is about turning inward and knowing the nature of what ‘this’ is. The first fundamental fact of looking inward is always to see that you are naturally very much a part of everything around you. Without that realisation, there is really no spiritual process. That is not the goal of ‘spirituality’, that is the fundamental —that who you are, or what you think you are, is just a part of everything else.

Today, modern physics is establishing that the whole of existence is just one energy. Scientific evidence is establishing that every particle in your body is in constant communication with the whole cosmic space. The spiritual process is about enhancing one’s perception and bringing this into one’s experience. Anyway, what is a dry scientific fact that doesn’t change anybody’s life?

A tree is not a project for you; a tree is your life. It is an outside part of yourself. It breathes for you every day. It is more than your lungs; your lungs cannot do anything without trees. We need to make people understand this in very simple ways.

Nature of knowledge

There are two directions for seeking truth: one, of thinking, and the other, of experiencing. The path of thinking is cyclic.

There is movement but no destination is reached. You get trapped in reading, memorising, discussing, arguing and assuming. Opinion is different from truth. Opinion is an idea while truth is an experience. Thoughts lead to opinion and experience to truth.

You may collect others’ thoughts and present them in a unique style but there is no originality in them. Only experience can be original, because it is born out of one’s inner wisdom. You can realize the truth only in the space of consciousness, free from thoughts.

Thoughts are helpful in the field of science, but mere thinking cannot give the touch of experience of the supreme truth, the inner core. Our thoughts veil the truth and makes seeing the reality of the Self difficult. The human consciousness, when in association with the world, creates thought reactions and gets lost in them.

However, it is important to know that if you are free to bind yourself, then you are free to sever those bondages too. Awareness and silence supplement each other. Practice of awareness brings silence and practice of silence enhances awareness. In their absoluteness, the consciousness undergoes an unimaginable revolution.

With this, the aspirant gets established in the Self. He realises his Self as truth-consciousness-bliss. The immortal is experienced. The darkness dissolves and a true life begins; life becomes blissful.

First, become a good human being

Be a good human first. This will help us overcome problems that the world is facing today. Cultivate strength to first be a good human yourself so that you can in turn create more good humans. No technique, guru, leader, social worker, nor healer can solve problems or work for common welfare unless change happens first in the individual.

Are diseases and other problems any less today than they were before? There is no shortage of healers, yogacharyas and gurus. Poverty continues unabated, incidents of disrespect towards women are increasing. There is no holistic education. This is because we have not created good humans.

To create a good human, first you have to become a good human. Only then can transformation happen. With good humans, earth receives good vibrations, and calamities are minimised. They happen only due to mind vibration, because we are empowering images such as – ‘I am the greatest social worker, i will get a big award, i will get a Nobel Prize. I am a great writer, i will get the Booker award’. These are all ego-driven, not conducive to creating a good human. I don’t deny that you have to make a living, but don’t forget that salt in vegetable is good; vegetable in salt is not good.

How do you define a good human? A good human is truthful, simple, does not snatch others’ things, nor does he step on other people to get ahead. He is content with what he has, and if he needs more, he works for it, and does not take shortcuts. He is not hungry for popularity. He is natural.

Life on earth is completing its cycle. A quantum leap into the next evolutionary orbit, like cell division, can happen any moment. Transferring from one orbit to another is not prefixed. Satellites in the previous orbit will disintegrate if they are not ready for the quantum leap. Planets travel in their own orbits at a specific distance without colliding with each other. With satellites departing, there is no change in the speed of that planet. Like orbit change could happen in the universe, so too with constantly evolving humans. When the time is ripe to step into another dimension, the consciousness of an evolved human enters into it by being in the same body or leaving that body (death).

Those related to this evolved consciousness have the same niyat, situation, as that of the satellites of a planet. Pure consciousness is welcomed into the new orbit by satellites of that frequency. The ones on the vertical path should not be vain or arrogant. Shastras say that when their collective good karmas are accounted for, they could fall from grace. When one is with a truly evolved human, akin to a manifest planet, it is your destiny to be in total surrender or else imbibe the core attributes of that evolved human so that when time elapses and you are not tuned to take the quantum leap with such a master into the new orbit, one can fill the vacuum left by such an evolved person and take the mission forward.

This is the dharma of a tattva jnani, knower of the essence, a spiritual mentor carrying consciousness of the age, as stated in shastras: ‘Yatha pindey, tatha Brahmandey’ – ‘as is human mechanism, so is the universe’.

Ego and humility

Ego gives us our identity: “I am an Indian. I am a businessman. I live in Delhi.” From ego stems pride and vanity: “I am learned in the shastras and so I am superior to others.” Such aperson is vain. A true spiritualist is humble.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has said that a true spiritualist is as humble as a blade of grass—no matter how many people trample it, it remains unaffected. Cultivating humility is to see the Supreme residing in each and every living entity and to treat everyone equally.

Adi Shankara, the proponent of advait Vedanta, showed his greatness when he not only admitted his mistake in having chastised a sweeper but accepted him as his guru. One day, while making his way to the Sri Vishvanatha temple at Kashi, he saw a sweeper, broom under his arm, coming from the opposite direction along the same path. Succumbing to long-standing tradition, the Brahmin in Shankara spontaneously called out to the sweeper, “Move away. Move away.” The sweeper, however, stood his ground and gently asked Shankara, “Is there difference in the space in a golden pot and the space in a mud pot? Is there difference in the one Consciousness (God) that is in the hearts of each living entity?”

Shankara understood at once that the sweeper was reminding him that within the chaste Brahmin and the sweeper resides the same Brahmn and, therefore, Shankara was, in reality, the same as him, the difference being only in outer appearance.

Make Life Meaningful !!!

Spending life in the service of mankind, thinking that one’s deeds are nothing but the will of the Almighty and considering them to be the command of God is what makes life meaningful.

Even a short life spent this way is worthwhile. But even a hundred years are a waste if one spends them in pursuit of selfish interests.

Admitting the supremacy of God’s will does not mean that we become fatalistic. The purushartha for achieving desired goals becomes more meaningful if one thinks of them as the will of God. For, it takes away the sense of sorrow and unhappiness if one fails to achieve one’s goals or fulfil his expectations. As a consequence there is no sense of dejection or depression.

 Second, it takes away the sense of ego, or ahamkara which is likely to accompany success, making our life miserable by limiting our personality and stunting our growth at the individual, social and spiritual planes.

Every artist puts his signature in a corner of his painting, his own creation. God who has created the entire universe has not put His name to it. Hence the mystery surrounding Him.

We search for Him but only a few experience Him. They are those who have completely surrendered their will to Him, giving up all ego and sense of ‘mine’ and ‘thine’. In the blink of an eye flowing water changes.

This is what prompted Heraclites to remark: “You cannot jump into the same river twice.” He implied that change is the only reality, everything else is an illusion.

Why is it that honest people suffer?

The general grievance everywhere is that the innocent suffer at the hands of the vicious. That the honest are deceived and harassed while the dishonest exploit and prosper. The innocent are frustrated not knowing the reason for this paradox in life. The reason becomes obvious with a study of the inner personality of humans.

A careful analysis would reveal that the nature of human beings falls under two broad classifications. The aggressive and the passive. Each of these can further be classified as good and bad. Thus there are the aggressive good and aggressive bad persons. Likewise, the passive good and passive bad, as illustrated below:

The terms aggressive and passive herein have a particular connotation depending on the use or non use of the intellect. The mind and intellect are the two equipments that propel human activity. The physical body cannot act on its own. Actions proceed either from the mind or the intellect. A person would be classified as passive when he acts from feeling and emotion of the mind without the guidance of the intellect. And, the one who acts with his intellect governing the mind through reason and judgment would be classified as aggressive.

A passive person functioning from his mind’s feeling and emotion may be good or bad. He conducts himself either way, unaware of his goodness or badness. He merely manifests his good or bad impulses. His intellect is not sufficiently developed to examine the nature of his activities. He does not intend to be either good or bad. Thus there are passively good and passively bad persons.

In contrast to the passive, the aggressive function with the intellect. The aggressive also may be categorised as good or bad. An aggressively bad person is wilfully vicious, catering to his personal interests. He plans and schemes, manipulates and manoeuvres in his immoral, corrupt way of living. He breaks customs and traditions, rules and regulations, to feed his egocentric desires. The use of the intellect makes him more powerful to dominate over the passive good and bad.

Since the passive do not use the intellect and function directly from the mind, they succumb to the oppression of the aggressive bad. As opposed to the aggressive bad, the aggressive good is essentially benevolent. He uses his intellect to evaluate his role in life and act in the best interest of the community at large. He is charitably disposed, service oriented.

Study these four classifications of human nature. You will find that the honest suffer because of lack of use of the intellect. Operating at the level of the mind, the passive become victims of intellectual manipulations of the aggressive bad. The solution to this problem lies in the passive developing and using their intellect to turn into aggressive good persons. The aggressive bad dread the aggressive good. Aggressive goodness would therefore take care of all evil and corruption in the world. Not knowing this solution there is no attempt to develop, strengthen the intellect and promote aggressive goodness. Instead, people lead a passive life, complain of malpractices and suffer at the hands of the oppressors.

Types of yoga and asana

·         Asanas

·         Shavasana

·         Shirshasana

·         Ardha Halasana ( one leg/ both legs)

·         Uttana Padasana

·         Viparitkarni

·         Sarvangasana

·         Matsyasana

·         Halasana

·         Bhujangasana

·         Ardha Shalabhasana

·         Shalabhasna

·         Dhanurasana

·         Makarasana

·         Vakrasana

·         Ardha Matsyendra

·         Matsyendrasana

·         Janushirasana

·         Paschimottanasana

·         Vajrasana

·         Supta Vajrasana

·         Yoga Mudrasna

·         Ushtrasana

·         Gomukhasana

·         Uttana Mandukasana

·         Kurmasana

·         Uttana Kurmasana

·         Kukkutasana

·         Bhadrasana

·         Mayurasana

·         Chakrasana

·         Vrikshasana

·         Tadasana

·         Garudasana

·         Utkatasana

“Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.”

Yoga day was started in 2015 by the genuine effort made by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi! And, it is celebrated every year on 21st of June. Yoga is that medicine that has the power to cure any disease of the Universe, even those which cannot be cured by the prescription of Doctor. Including Yoga in everyday life is one of the healthiest practice people can ever make. It not only makes you physically well but will calm your mind and soul.

International Day of Yoga was celebrated throughout the world for first time on 21st of June in 2015. The declaration was done after the call by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to the United Nations General Assembly on 27th of September in 2014 during his address to the UN General Assembly. On that day, record number of people practised Yoga in Delhi under the leadership of Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. It was a world record for the highest participation in one single yoga session. This is a great achievement for Indians. More than 170 countries including USA, China, Canada, etc participated in the event. It was celebrated on international level by organizing the activities like yoga training campus, yoga competitions and so many activities to enhance the awareness about yoga benefits. It was celebrated to let you know that regular yoga practice lead to better mental, physical and intellectual health. It positively changes your lifestyle and increases the level of well-being.

Yoga is not only a physical exercise where you twist, turn, stretch, and breathes in the most complex ways. These are actually only the most superficial aspect of this profound science of unfolding the infinite potentials of the human mind and soul. It leads to the healthy development of mind, body and soul by mastering certain yoga postures or asanas with breathing techniques. Pranayama needs special mention. It is the simplest form of yoga which is done before any asana. It teaches you how you can do wonders to your body by gaining control over your breath.

The Objectives Of International Day Of Yoga:

• To let you know the amazing and natural benefits of yoga.

• To reduce the rate of health challenging diseases all over the world.

• To bring communities much close together to spend a day for health from busy schedule.

• To enhance growth, development and spread peace all through the world.

• To help you get relief from stress through yoga.

• To spread the awareness of how yoga can heal the physical and mental diseases.

• To promote better mental, physical and spiritual development through yoga practice

• Improves your brain functions, memory and concentration.

• Helps you to gain flexibility and improves your posture.

• Helps in improving blood circulation which is needed for the healthy development of your mind and body.

• It plays a very important role in helping you to cope with stress.

      Benefits Kids Derive From Yoga:

• These asanas helps you to gain flexibility,

• Helps in achieving good coordination and balance of your mind and body,

• Helps you to manage stress.

• Helps you to improve posture and flexibility of spine.

• It also helps you to relax.

• It helps you to improve concentration and blood circulation.

The Positive Influences Of Yoga On Kids:

o    Thus to sum up , keeping all the benefits in mind ,the International Yoga Day has come into existence and is celebrated worldwide on the 21st of June to spread the awareness of the positive influences of yoga globally.

o    Yoga Day Speech For Kids - 2

o    Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj. Yoga means union of the individual consciousness or soul with the Universal Consciousness or Spirit. It is a 5000 year old Indian body of knowledge. It is a system of raising your ability to perceive, to enhance and to realise your ultimate nature. Yoga is the most profound exploration of the very mechanics of life. It is a gift to humanity, and should be started early in life so the practitioner can reap the lifelong benefits of this ancient practice. There are some very important advantages to start yoga when you are young. The magical age is 8.

o    It is common knowledge that adults combat stress in many forms every day. But today’s children are as stressed as adults. Growing competition in schools and colleges, dealing with peer pressure, difficult stage of puberty, extracurricular activities and meeting parents’ and teachers’ expectations are very stressful for children. The best way you can cope with this pressure is by practicing yoga. The practice has a huge effect on your body and the systems that support it, like the nervous, respiratory and digestive systems. Yoga influences children’s emotions and behaviour; it has a positive effect on the mental state and aids creativity.

o    Just like you prepare the soil before you sow the seeds, you need to prepare the mind. As children you are very receptive at a tender age. Yoga will help you to keep yourself focussed, improve the quality of your memory and overall brain functions. The mind assumes many stages. Yoga can help you to transform the ‘quality of consciousness.’ This can only be achieved if you can stay focussed and retain information. Yoga for kids is gaining popularity these days. Yoga poses or asanas help kids with disabilities and many have shown immense improvements and positive results. Just keep in mind that you can only give your level best when you enjoy the asanas.

o    Some of the asanas beneficial for children are Pranayama, Tadasana, Uttanasana,Halasana, Bhujangasana,Vrikshasana,Ardhachandrasana,Trikonasana,Gomukhasana,UshtrasanaDhanurasana, Matsyasana, Naukasana and Marjariasana. Each of the above mentioned asanas have a positive effect on your body.

 Thus you can see how beneficial yoga is and finally 21st June is declared as the International Yoga day by the U.N. General Assembly. Declaration was done after the call by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to the United Nations General Assembly on 27th of September in 2014 during his address to the UN General Assembly.